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A. L. ENGELBERG.

HORSE DETAGHING DEVICE FOR VEHICLES.

No. 338,049. Patented Mar. 16, 1886.

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HORSE-DETACHING DEVICE FGR VEHICLES.

. SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 338,09, dated March 16, 1886.

Application filed November 27, 1885.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR L. ENGELBERG, a native of Germany, but an applicant for naturalization as a citizen of the United States, residing at Omaha, in the county of Douglas and State of Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Horse-Detaching Devices for Vehicles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to devices by which a horse or other animal can be instantaneously detached from a buggy or other vehicle; and it consists in the detailed construction and combination of the parts hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view from above of the shafts and front portion of a vehicle provided with the detaching device, and with the collar of the horse shown connected thereto. Fig. 2 is a side view, partly in section to an enlarged scale, of those portions of the device which are fastened on the front end of each of the shafts and connect with the breast-band. Fig. 3 is a view of the same parts looking at the end of the shaft.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre sponding parts in all the figures.

A is a breast-band, or, instead of a breastband,a collar provided with harnes in the ordinary manner may be used. No traces are employed, only a belly-band and side straps be- 5 is a plate firmly secured upon each side of the hames or breast-band, and having the hook-bolt I) projecting from it. The lower end of this hook-bolt is made tapering, and has a hole, I), through it for the locking-bolt. The portion of the device carried by the shaft is made in three sections, 0, D, and E, which screw together, and are attached to the end of the shaft and form a nut and finished tip therefor. The section 0 is a tapering ferrule secured upon the end of each shaft by screws, and provided with a screw-threaded portion, 0, at its front end for the attachment of the Serial No. [$4,992. (Ncmodcl) middle tubular section, I). The tube D has a guide, (1, formed upon either the top or bottom, and a slot, (1', in each side, and it has the proper screw-threzuled portions at the ends for attachment to the ferrule-section C, and the end section, E. The end section, E, is provided with a Socket, 6, into which the end of the hook-bolt 1) fits, and has a central hole, 6, for the locking-bolt, which registers with the hole through the hookbolt. A screw-cap, 6 fits over the extreme end of the socket-piece, and can be removed when it becomes necessary to clean or oil the parts.

F is the loekingbolt, to one endot which is riveted the collar-f.

G is a spring which presses the collarf forward and holds the lockiug'bolt in position.

H is a yoke attached to the rear end of the locking-bolt, and with its arms bentback parallel with the axis of the shaft for a short distance and then bent outward, so that the ends of the arms can project through the slots d in each side of the tube 1). The two arms h of the slidel are attached to the projecting ends of the yoke H, and the slide I. may be placed either on the upper or lower side of the tube 1). In either case the slide works back and forth upon one of the guides d, and is held in place by the V-shaped guide and the eye 1', through which it passes. The slots d are concealed by the covering-plates (P, which are carried by the ends of the arms of the yoke H and slide with it.

J are the operating-wires attached to the ends of the slides I, and extending back along the shafts K, through suitable guides j. At the rear there is a cross-rod, j, connecting the two shaft-wires, and attached to this at the center there is a handle, L. This handle L extends backward and upward through the dash-board or floor of the carriage to a point convenient within reach of the driver.

N is a small rubber-covered roller supported in brackets a, which project from the lower side of the socket-pieces, to support the ends of the shafts and save them from injury when they drop upon the ground.

In operating the device thehorse is detached from the vehicle by simply pulling on the handle L. This action draws back the lockingbolts and the shafts drop by their own weight.

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Having thusdescribed my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is-

1. In a horse-detaching device, the combi nation of hook-bolts attached to the breastband or hames, socket-pieces secured upon the ends of the vehicle-shafts, locking-bolts connecting the said hook-bolts to the said socket-pieces, and rollersjonrnaled in bracke s projecting downward from the said socketpieces for protecting the shafts from injury when the locking-bolts are drawn back, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a horse-detaching device, the combination of the hook-bolt b.2it-tached to the breastband or hames, and provided with the hole I), the socket-pieces E, provided with the socket e, and hole 0, the locking-bolt F, the spring G, and a wire connected to the said lockingloolt for operating it from inside the vehicle, substantially asand for the purposes set forth.

guide d for the slide, and the wire J attached to the said slide, and provided with a handle, so that the locking-bolt may be operated from inside the vehicle, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ARTHUR L. ENGELBERG.

\Vitnesses:

V P. \V. HEURIoH,

O. BREDEMEYER. 

